Don't forget in your threat model that Apple can cancel your account at any time for any reason whatsoever. They've even done it to security researchers using Apple's own bug bounty program. If that happens, you are stranded with those accounts effectively inaccessible to you forever.
So? Google can also cancel your account at any time for any reason whatsoever, and good luck getting it back unless you're a celebrity with connections or manage to make a big enough fuss about it on social media. Using the same logic, you should not use Gmail then.
> So? Google can also cancel your account at any time for any reason whatsoever
Right, that's why. Don't ever use "sign in with XXX" for any value of XXX, whether apple or google. Any of them can erase you off their site on a whim and you've lost all unrelated accounts where you made the mistake to "sign in with XXX".
Create accounts with your own email, control your future destiny.
> Google can also cancel your account at any time for any reason whatsoever [...] Using the same logic, you should not use Gmail then.
Actually, under that logic it's only that you shouldn't use the @gmail.com domain; it should be fine to use Gmail with your own domain, since that allows you to recover if your Google account is canceled (just change the MX to another email provider).
Another thing you can do is to never use your Google account for anything other than email; that should reduce the chances of the account being canceled for no obvious reason. For instance, it's been reported that, if you used your Google account for Youtube, and Google decided your real name was not your real name (which it wanted due to the Google Plus integration with Youtube), your whole Google account could be canceled; that risk could be avoided by just never logging into Youtube with your Google account.
Google isn’t worth the trouble.
I pay for my email, you remember paying for stuff you use, an antiquated idea, I know, but restores the balance in the equation.
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